AR Contractor, Firework
$75-80k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Video-based eCommerce platform
Job no longer available
Video-based eCommerce platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$75-80k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To revolutionize commerce for people and brands through the power of human connection.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration
- 2+ years of experience
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets
- Intermediate knowledge of accounting fundamentals
- Technical and have used or can learn various B2B software (Sage Intacct, Salesforce)
- Excellent communications skills (written and verbal) with outstanding ability to influence decision-makers and guide effective questions
- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Self-motivated team player with a customer-centric approach to getting things done
What the job involves
- As a contract AR Analyst, you will be responsible for improving and maintaining outstanding AR metrics.
- The position will analyze AR reports weekly and determine priority and methods of outreach, communicate with the billing, contracts, and other operations teams to resolve customer concerns
- Review weekly Accounts Receivable aging reports to prioritize outreach
- Contact new customers to confirm billing information
- Contact and follow-up with customers with past due invoices to request payment statuses and provide solutions with the Accounting team and customer to resolve outstanding payment commitments
- Document customer contacts and collection efforts
- Communicate with internal staff regarding customer concerns and issues including partnering with key commercial stakeholders to ensure customer balances are addressed and resolved
- Make recommendations for next steps in the collections process such as service interruptions or external collections
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Live-streamed shopping has long been popular in China. In 2020, the first 30 minutes of Alibaba’s Singles’ Day presales campaign on Taobao Live generated an impressive $7.5 billion in total transaction value. Firework is helping to bring these kinds of video-based eCommerce experiences to a Western audience with a smart commercial strategy.
Originally launched as a standalone social platform featuring swipe-able web stories, Firework made a strategic shift towards a more streamlined B2B model. It now provides services to partners such as Albertsons, a prominent grocery chain, by granting them access to its video technology infrastructure. This enables partners to effortlessly launch diverse and interactive shippable videos on their respective websites. The outcome of this pivot has paid off, with Firework emerging as the leading global platform of its kind.
The real money in shoppable videos is ultimately live-streamed experiences, which are still not landing for American audiences. Despite this, Firework’s more complete offering, including the ability to directly collect consumer data and learn about a shopper’s behaviour, means that American brands are giving the startup business ahead of this anticipated cultural shift.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2022
$150m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$55m
SERIES A
Total funding: $270.3m
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
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Founders
Vincent Yang
(CEO)Previously founded EverString which was acquired by ZoomInfo. Before that, worked as an Investment Manager at Summit Partners and before that as an Analyst in J.P. Morgan's Investment Banking team.
Jerry Luk
(President)Previously Head of Business Strategy for the Mobile division at Edmodo. Before that, co-founded Presdo where they were CTO. Early employee at LinkedIn, creating the mobile platform.
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